Fast Information Diet – Is it Good?

A report published Wednesday by the University of California, San Diego, calculates that American households collectively consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008.

HMI Report/UC San Diego

This averages to 34 GB /Day per person.

This also means there is huge amount of this ‘Information’ served fast and easy, via TV and Computers for most part.

While this obviously points to a great opportunity for online backup service providers with so much data explosion to deal with for backups and restores, is this a good thing from health point of view? Are we consuming too much of this fast information diet making us fat and unhealthy?